This day-flying hawkmoth was mainly a migrant to the UK ... The six-spot burnet is the most common British burnet moth and the only species with six red spots on each forewing. According to Alessandro ...

It is fascinating because nearly all other moths and butterflies have sucking mouthparts - the proboscis - for drinking nectar. Butterflies are (in the evolutionary scheme of things) just big, ...

In 1954, shortly before his 15th birthday, Kevin Crumplin made a model of a Tiger Moth. It comprised a balsawood fuselage ... ‘They were known as “the Trainer of the Empire” because almost every ...